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PAG(B)ASA
I start my day with a cup of coffee and a newspaper that comes very handy. As I browse through the pages, I can’t help but get disappointed with the news about corruption, crimes, and other inhumane activities that have seemingly become a common scenario here in the Philippines. As I walk to the bus station, everything seemed ordinary except for the poster on top of the waiting shed that I normally walk pass through. For some strange reason, today was different because as I saw the sign that says “Pagbasa” (the letter B has a lighter color, making the word appear more like PAG ASA). I was enticed to stare at it for a good whole 10 minutes and just ponder on what this piece of word wants to convey. I mean, is there really hope in reading when all you read in the newspaper is a bunch of negative events that happen in the society, and when you step out into the streets of the metro you see kids living in extremely inhumane conditions and homeless people begging for a coin or two? Indeed, seeing such can only remind a person that perhaps there is no hope lying in the corner, so what’s with all these inspiring quotes when reality shows you otherwise?
The Manila Bulletin: Pampanga students get new Libraries
Ceremonial turnover of books by AHON's Chairman of the Board, Mr. Hector Tagaysay at Sto. Tomas Elementary School.
AHON Donates to Pampanga for the Second Time Around
There is absolutely no stopping AHON Foundation from reaching out provincial public elementary schools across the country! A week after it launched a fully refurbished library at Sto. Tomas Elementary School, AHON Foundation set forth once again to Pampanga on May 5 and 7, 2010, to set-up and inaugurate the newest library in the town of Minalin.
Job Opening: Program Officer
AHON (Acts of Hope for the Nation) Foundation,
the corporate social responsibility initiative of Filway Marketing, Inc.,
is a non-stock, non-profit organization with a mission of promoting quality basic education by developing public elementary school libraries all over the Philippines.
AHON Donates to Pampanga Elementary School
Situated in the youngest and smallest municipality of Pampanga, Santo Tomas Elementary School (STES) caters to a grade school population a little more than 300 pupils only. The school is blessed with a vast piece of land on which its school buildings and a basketball court are built. However, with a limited budget allocated for library functions, the said elementary school is not able to develop if not maintain a library that can stimulate the love for reading among the students.
An Afternoon of Sweet Treats
What first comes to mind when one is faced with the word “charity”? You say outreach, fun and games, extending help, beneficial and giving back. But we say gelato, ringing bells, education, kids, books, fun-filled and sweet! Our group, Top of Your Head, formed from an Events Management class at the Ateneo, was tasked to organize a charity event as a project finale. We decided to stray from a run-of-the-mill sort of affair and eventually came up with the simplest enterprise that could help numerous kids and could be achieved in less than a day. And thus, ‘Sweet Treat’, a benefit event for AHON Foundation, where every scoop of gelato adds one Adarna book to the foundation, was held at Gelatone! last Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 12nn-4pm.
AHON Donates to First Provincial School in 2010
Located at the foot of Mount Banoy, the small Talumpok Proper Elementary School is far from the Batangas City's noise and pollution. It is covered by several trees and the normal day for the students and teachers would be one filled with a cool breeze. Unfortunately, because the school of 400 students is far from the city proper of Batangas, donations and assistance from different institutions rarely reach them.
Blue and White Valentine's with the Blue Eagles
Race to 1,000 cups was quite a huge number to fill, but not with the Blue Eagles preparing and serving The White Hat yogurt! Last February 13, 2010 at The White Hat Shangri-La Branch, the Ateneo Blue Eagles volunteered to serve yogurt from 1:00-5:00PM to help raise literacy rates through Acts of Hope for the Nation (AHON) Foundation.
The Library: A Haven for Dreamers
On one of the walls of Cubao Elementary School, the vision of the school is posted on a blackboard using cut-out letters of pink and yellow paper and it says: “Haven of Quality Education.”